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【DΞCOMPILΞ NΣVΞR】 Android Red Team @google Fuzzing @aflplusplus.bsky.social CTF @enoflag (opinions my own)

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404media.co

everything is a bytecode-targetable virtual machine if you look at it sideways. JBIG2 image decompression? virtual machine. x86 mov instruction? virtual machine. truetype fonts? virtual machine. Magic: The Gathering? believe it or not, also virtual machine.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

Reminder! Today is the submission deadline for the first ever Conference of Synthetic Security Research @synsec_ai, so unless you want to gamble on a(nother) extension, warm up those agents and get those papers submitted!

LLMs are likely going to be the mediating lens through which large swathes of the population make sense of the world around them on political issues, & it's very bad that a man who has a strong case for being one of the worst people alive is one of the few to be actively trying to exploit this

Don't you just love it when your Agent announces everything works and then lists the six or seven failures it found and ignored..